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vhv84_96225
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Nov 27, 2013

Performance of F5 BIG IP

Dear all

 

I need to the loadbalancing server support 10000 user connect to mail Exchange server. I am wondering whether or not the performance of f5 device would be able to support for this connection (10000 connectivities at the same time) ? Why is difference between other index in F5 ? L7 requests per second: 425K L4 connections per second: 150K L4 HTTP requests per second: 1.1M Throughput: 5 Gbps L4/L7

 

Thanks

 

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  • PeteWhite's avatar
    PeteWhite
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    Nov 28, 2013

    f5 have different types of virtual server according to requirements, as well as different hardware to scale onto. For instance, a standard HTTP virtual server acts as a full proxy and allows clever layer 7 tweaks to be done such as changing URLs or very whizzy things. However, a Performance HTTP or FastLayer4 type is not full proxy and reduces the amount of layer 7 functionality but is faster. f5 also has hardware packet acceleration and SSL encryption hardware offload to enable fast packet transfer.

     

    However, I don't have any specifics about supported configurations on different hardware but my thoughts are that most f5 boxes would handle 10K Exchange clients with no problems. Have you seen the Exchange iApp? It massively simplifies configuration. SOL8365 - Deploying F5 with Microsoft Exchange Server